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The Portland daily press., 1887-04-29
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Mr.. A. j. Maker is canvassing the city,
soliciting subscriptions Tor the new encyclo-
pedia Of American biography to be issued
by the Appletons, one volume of which has
already been published. The work will com
prise six volumes and will include the names
of above fifteen thousand prominent native
and adopted citizens of the United States,
including living persons, from the earliest
settlement of the country; also the names of
several thousand eminent citizens of Canada,
Mexico, Brazil, Chill and Peru, and all the
other countries Of North and South America.
The great aim has been to embrace all note
worthy persons of the New World, and 10
give biographies that shall embody with suf-
fcient fulness the latest result of historical
research, rendering it reference book of
the highest order
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casco Engine connanx.

Casco Engine Company No. 5, celebrated
its anniversary last evening. About fifty
were present and enjoyed the elegant repast
provided for them. The invited guests in
cluded the board of engineers, the city COM
mittee on fire department and others. After
justice had been done to the good thing $,
speeches were made by Captain Long of the
company, Alderman Kicker, Councilman
Peck and officers of the other city companies
The affair was one of the pleasdntest in the
history of the company.
The supper was served by Mr. Lincoln,
Mr.. Fogg and Mr. Barrows
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-29

b6 PRINCE STREET, N. Y, March 20, 1855
Having been troubled with pains in back and
chest during the last Winter was compelled TO
remain at home unable 10 attend to business, un-
til was advised by friend TO try one of ALL
COCKS Porous PLAsTERs. After applying one
to my chest and one to my back, in three hours l
found relief which had not got in over three
months. / checrfully recommend them to per-
sons having spinal weakness and lung troubles.
HENRY j. GALLAGHER
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UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT
BEFORE JUDGE WEBB.

BEFORE JUDGE WEBB.
The Grand Jury reported the following indict-
ments:
United States vs.. Lyman b. Heath, retail liquor
dealer, tax unpaid.
United States VS.. William II. Pennell, larceny
Of property of U. s.
Offense.
United States VS.. James S. Higgins, stealing let
tiers from post Office
The jury were excused from further atteand-
ance.
United States by indictment VS.. Brien Seaman
otherwise Briny Scanlan for stealing from post
Office at Bath. Plea guilty and sentenced TO the
Reform School for three years; alternative SEN
tence one year IN the State Prison at hard labor.
Adjourned to Friday at 10 a. M
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The Forest City GRADUATED Sugar is ac-
knowledged fully equal if not superior to
any in this country.
1t is guaranteed strictly pure and only the
highest grades of sugar used in its manufac-
ture.
It's kept exclusively by the best grocers
everywhere.
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MARRIAGES.

Clara Foster.
Miss Lena A. Jones. ~
In Rome, April 10, winsloT Jones and Miss
Josephine Groves. ''
In orland, Apsit-eaeo, Rufus E. Gray and Miss
Bertha II. Sparks.
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DEATHS.

In Bridgton, April 10, Mrs. Morrill, Stevens
daughter of Nathaniel Thompson
In Augusta, April 26, Enoch Libby, aged II
years.
In Gardiner, April IL, Eva M. Starbird aged 81
years months.
In Pittston April %, Jones Emery, aged So
years months.
In Durham, April "a, Mrs. Patience Davis aged
"a years.
In Auburn, April rs, Miss Pauline Rounds aged
43 years. "eoN
III In Lisbon, April %, James Hilton, aged SO
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A Good offer.

Mr.. A. o. Clarke in our advertising
columns offers to sell his property on Grove
street or exchange it for desirable city prop
erty nearer the business center of the city.
Mr.. Clarke's place is in beautiful situation
and his offer will repay examination by any
body DESTROYS of purchasing good house
with stable and grounds.
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE GOULD.

BEFORE JUDGE GOULD.
MISREPRESENTATION Sampson and WiniaS b.
Gilbert. Intoxcation. Each fined S3,and costs
Israel A. Foster. Common drunkard Sixty
days in the county jaiL
months In the courty JAIL
county jrlnn
Ns0rgianna McCloud. Vagrant and idle person
-Four months in the county jail.
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Horse Notes.

Mr.. Cyrus Thompson, Of the firm Of
Thompson & Hall, has very fine moving
fiye-year-old colt by Palmer Knox, dam a
Canadian bred animal. Mr.. Thompson also
has well matured and very promising year
ling FLY by Startle dam a thoroughbred.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-29

Ifyour complaint is want of appetite, try half a
wineglass Of Angosturn Bitters half an hour
before dinner. Beware of counterfets. Ask
your grocer or druggist for the genuine article,
manufactured by DIR. ]. G. D. Siegert & Sons.
apr25 eod&wlw
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Pain from Indigestion, dyspepsia, and too hearty
eating is relieved at once by taking one of Car
ters Little Liver Pills Immediately after DIN
ner. Don't forget this. apr26 d&w1w
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-29

If you have a cough, resulting from sudden
cold, procure Adamson's Botanic Dalsam, take
one-half to one teaspoonful three times day, and
your cough will cease. Trial bottles 10 cents.
apr25 eod&wlw
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For Salc orTaIet

A DESIRABLE two story frame dwelling.
- mouse on fne street, near Bracket street,
paflors dining room, kitchen, bath room, with
not ana coid waterO seven chambers, plenty Of
SioSesS anu front and back stairs, fire places In
oacA parlor ana dining room, new steam heating
apparatus with eight radiators; newly painted
anu paPered throughout; area OF lot 1000 square
ADAMS, No. % Exchange ST dec24dff
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A small farm for sale or to let, containing about
IA ten acres Of good land In a high state of
cultivation. situated In Falmouth on the Gray
road, about five miles from Portland two story
house, barn nearly new, and all the buildings In
excellent repair. Enquire of EDWIN l.. DYER
No 396 Congress St. mar:3fdtf
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Hotel for Sale.
FARM FOR SALE OF TO LEFT.

II livery stable attached. Well patronized.
II Location, Eastern Shore of Maryland. Price
$4,000. On most liberal terms. K. j. JOHNSON,
Box 1167, Philadelphia, Pa. ap27d3t
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HOUSE AND LAND FOR SALE
Or will Exchange fer Desirable City
Property nearer the Business Center.

The desirable two story house No. 22S Grove
St. ten rooms, thoroughly built by the day, heat
ed by furnace, superior large. light, cemented eel
large hennery; 16,640 feet land; choice fruit
trees, abundance apples, pears, plums, grapes,
Portland or vicinity. This property is between
and adjoining the residences of j. s. Palmer, ESQ.,,
and Capt. Seth b. Mcclellan; easy terms Apply
to A. o. CLARKE, on the premises, after ocllck
p. M, or to LORD, HASKELL & CO., 1853 & 165
Middle street. apr29eod2w
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COASTING VESSELS FOR SALE.

Two vessels, Of about 10 tons each, well adapt-
e s LOT the coasting business, and In good order
VIII be sold low. Inquire OF
Z. S. HAMLEN & Co.,
PORTLAND, ME.
apr2o-tf
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LyOR sALE-A very desirable two story
Il dwelling, containing IA rooms, besides two
bath rooms house Is arranged expressly for two
families; this property is situated near Franklin
street, on Cumberland and Is first class either for
investment or TO occupy; immediate possession.
Apply TO JOHN F. PROCTOR, Centennial Block.
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BOARD.

VUANTED-Having renewed my lease Of the
w McCobb House, No. 112 Free St., and new
ly furnished 1t throughout, can now aecommo-.
date few more boarders, also few table board
ers c. i. KIMBALL. est
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r.,is I-Iwo good large furnished rooms,
dat,o Win good closets and bath room accommo,
Eo a MIN or without board at reasonable rates
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C,MOICE DIAmoND ISLAND LoTs

" Tor safe az great bargain; these beautiful
cottage lots must be sold at once. Also acres
upon Great Chebeague Island, near steamer land
ing. Apply to N. 8. GARDINER, Exchange St
26-1
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EOh SALE = Brick house, with modern i'm
pr0vements; for further partleulars innuIra
at 209 NEWBURY STREET. IoE2
EOR SALE OR TO BE LET-House, con
- tanning IL rooms, exclusive Of bath room
pantry, Nc.; lot 4ONSS; In good location; house In
frstrelasS condition; excellent drainage: gas and
SSeepsago; For terms apply to WILLIAM X. NEAL,
80 Exchange street. 1877
ItOR SALE-Farm within one mile Of Grand
trunk Depot, in Falmouth, and four miles
from Portland; very desirable place for one wish
ing 70 I'VE IN the coun try nsummer; fine location
Enquire OF III. II. MERRILL. ON the place. 12-A
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That Tired Feeling
Hoods SarsapariIIa
:. 100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggists. 81 six for So. Prepared on
Y by c. !. HOOD & CO., Apothecares, Lowell
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LNOR sALE.--A pleasant sunny house, near
IL State street; contains nine rooms, double par
lors, dining room and kitchen, with five cham
bers; on the corner Of two streets. A good house
for a moderate price. For further particulars APP
ply to N. s. GARDINER, No. 40 Exchange st.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-29

ITO LET-No Park Place O roor,s oon,or
lent, water and gas good iocat I eos small
faE NSeS1red; Enquire at No. 4, or CHAS. T.
OoL--N, uOouiOIuS. 28-1
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MLLETT EVANS & CO., M suss.


EOR RENT-The entire floor No. 255 Middle
IL Street, directly over the Boston and Portland
clothing store, has been successfully occupied for
years by wholesale fancy goods dealers: wide en-
trance, good light front and rear, and freight
elevator. BENJAMIN SHAW, 4S1z Exchange
ST. ISL
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WANTED.

CoAT makers, steady work and good pay. Ap-
~ ply at once to GEO. IL. YORK, Merchant
Tailor, Wo0df0rds, Me. apr25dtf
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PAVING CUTTERS.

EO PAVING CUTTERS are wanted at Hur-
w ricane Island to cut New York blocks
a trst-class job for the season guaranteed. Apply
az Office OF company, 22S Main street, Rockland
Me-, or at the Works at Hurricane Island.
ap27 d3t
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-03-21
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I'M and after WedpesSSad,ii@ Time
~ 1885, Passenger troiS. ", sPa /
Annapolis, daily, Except Sop M sI =
lows: ''noay, Hs
LEAVE ANNAPOLIS
AT GAO a m., and l205 n ~ a..
p. M, and 5.25 p. m. Arrive ~. !. , 1
lis, at S.5S a. M, and ASH ~ - .l1.'s
p. M, and 7.15 p, m. ''1 AUG y
SUNDAY TRAINS
Leave as follows s.SOa m =, +,
p. m. Arrive at Annapolis - y M Isi !
m. and 6.2S p. m. ' q 'aa1
Through coaches are run m ,e,t.
above trains between Baltimore nd !.
narolis '''''''' aug u
Through freight from Ballimo,. i,
Local Freight Trains leave A.
tuesdays and Fridays at 9OOa m
Freight will be Transported atm.
est rates, and will be received h N.
more for Shipment to Annapolg ! Y.
as 900 D. m.
p. m. j. WILSON BROW
President and
j II. Knows. Gen Ticket Agt
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-03-21

Ladies Dress-Go irOn'l
25c. per yard.
Plain and BroCade Velvslsa
and Colored Iaces for W
Trimmings, cheap. +
Dress Ginghams, Cali'oss
ton and FlanDels, at red
prices. .,
Gents, Ladies and C Oh
Underwear, Hosiery, Silh !
Linen Handkerchief, Linen
lars, Cuffs, Silk Ties, Scars Z
Bows, at very low prices.
Black and colored Jeis Y.
Jersey Capes, Gents and !. Y !.
Knit Jackets and White 'i''
very cheap. Il
Calico Shirts IOI ooo W. "a
Boys white shirts for q =
worth 60c. -, ~,
Splendid line Of ladies -
and ulsters will be co,4
CLOSED OUT AT CV W !.
All other goods in '''''
Drices 10 suif Tie times
]. FRANK KRAHE \.
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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-03-21
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The MODEL FAST LINE e..
DOUBLE Tack JAxsry g..

FOR Annapolis, 7ao '@tloa
m. and 40 p. m. % On 4 s. NJ na.
M; and 800 p. m. '" sunday
For Way Stations ha,u.
and Washington, SID Hoe's ! 81 Blass
i2.l5, 800, $50, II So ; o'Su' sg
day, $50, 9.O5 a. m, NJ ! p B; n : q i
HOO p. m. Low ON, Go
as follows: 'on lof Bslas.
o a, M, $50 a. m. e.4o.
m, $50 a. M, 1907 a. N y ., m q,
M :, L.25 p. m, Sl5p. n 90 y l.lll
4,SO P: M, 4.4O p. M. $40 9 !, o.aO |
M, 700 p. m, S.95 p. m , -, n I, esl
M; On Sunday only | .So n a y llai
From Annapolis, Sis /. = a.
o'oO ?. m. On SUNDAY. 100 ~, ~ "a
and $40 p. m. VIVA q, :
Baggage called for and az,
hotels and residences on Is, SSaecGe !
ticket office, l52 West Bal, Jj,uen q |
Camden Station, and 81 Sui n "
DAVID LEE, n = = 5,FoatnI
Genl. Superintendent. Cen =, ION =
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EVENING [ 'APITAL.
MONDAY. March 81, 1887
Tho Fair Sew.
PUBLISHED DAILY r'e = SUNDAYS

Women never stood higher
than they do now. Look at
their heads and at their heels. -
Miss Mary Booth. the editor of
Harper S BdzdT, is said TO be
going to Europe for rest.
Piano.tuning is now suggested
as an employment ia which
women would probably do well.
Municipal suffrage for women
has been defeatedin the Nebras.
ka Legislature bya small ma
jority.
New York widows Of social
celebrity have reduced the pc
Rod for wearing a mourning veil
to one mouth.
The women of Kansas are
registering in large numbers to
vote under the new municipal
law.
The growth of the Harvard
Annex for women has made
a prepatory department neces-
sary, and one will soon be
opened.
Mrs. Marion Todd is a sue
cessful lawyer in Albion, Mich.
Her first case was for a railroad
conductor against a rich corpo-
alton, and she won it, She is
now prosecuting a S25, 900
damage suit against the Central
Pacific railroad.
Opinion of Leading Editor Almost all
the diseases that afllict us from infancy TO
lod age have their origin in disordered
liver. A really good liver medicine is the
most important in the whole range of
pharmacy. We believe Simmons Liver
Regulator TO be the best among them all
We pin our faith upon the Regulator, and
If we could persuade every reader who is
in Ill health to buy it, we would willingly
vouch for the benefit each would receive
I'D. Cincinnati Gazette.
, 1887-03-16

Thurlow Weed used to tell about n man
from the western part of the state of New
York, with a most Respondent and fiery
proboscis, who went to Albany for the
purpose of asking an office of Governor
Bouck. Being cautioned not to appear
before the governor (who was u strong
temperance mani in that nose, he, by the
advice of n waggish physician, applied a
fiax-seed poultice to it before going to bed
the night previous to the intended call on
the governor. The next morning he ap-
peared at the breakfast table Of the hotel,
with his nose bleached and parboiled,
looking for all the world Xix a washer
woman's thumb. The doctor was himself
an applicant for Office, living in the same
hotel, and had advised the p~oultice only in
joke; but when he found the man had
actually applied it, he let the cat out of
the bag. The boarders were accordingly
on the lookout for the patient in the morn
ing, and when the nose appeared there
was such a oar of laughter at the table
that the poor fellow had to change his
lodgings before calling upon the temper
ance goyernor.=Ben: Perley Poore.
, 1887-03-16
BY LAW.

Congress has finally repealed the tenure
of office act, a partisan measure adopted
to hold President Andrew johnson under
the control of congress, both houses oil
which we're then strongly Republican. The
president NAV nov more freely remov
Office holders, if he deems it best for the
good of the civil service.
SectIon l,767 of the United States re-
vised statutes passed March 2, 1867. pro.
vides that:
Every person holding any civil Office
to which he has been or hereafter may be
appointed by and with the advice and con
sent of the senate, and who shall have be
come duly qualified to act therein, shall be
entitled to hold such Office during the
term for which he was appointed, unless
sooner removed by and with the advice
and consent of the senate, or by the APP
pcintment, with the like advice and con
sent, of a successor in his place.
Following this is a provision regulating
suspensions and appointments during the
recess of the senate.
Democrats have in many instances com
planned of President Cleveland for not re-
moving more Republicans from Office, as
they were filling about all the Offices when
Mr.. Cleveland was elected. He has APP
pointed Democrats in the places Of Re
publicans whose commissions have ex-
PRED, except in a few instances. But the
tenure of Office act prevented him from
making removals by breaking commits
sions. Commissions are constantly ex
piring, however, aud there have been a
good many changes during the past two
years. There ought to have been, for it
is fair that the five million Democratic
voters should be as well represented in the
public offices as the four and a half mil
lion Republicans.
, 1887-03-16

The average weight Of the brain in
men is forty-seven ounces, and in women
some four or five ounces less; the human
organ being absolutely heavier than that
of any of the lower animals except the
elephant and the whale, with brains of
ten and five pounds respectively. AS u
rule, mental capacity and the size OF the
brain quite closely correspond; and it has
been observed that a brain weight of less
than thirty-two ounces in an adult person
is always accompanied by a defective in
%tellect. The rule has its exceptions, now
ever, u notable one being that of Gam
BETA, the small weight Of whose brain,
less than forty-four ounces, is attracting
the attention of French anthropologists.
A contrasting case has recently been fur
nished in an idiot with q brain Of fifty
five ounces.
Familiar great brains are those of Gu
vier and Webster, each exceeding W
ounces; of DR.. Abercrombie, 60 ounces,
and of Duypreten, SO 10 ounces. Des-
cartes, Raphael and Voltaire had small
heads, while that Of Napoleon was only
slightly above the average, and tont of
Schiller not at all. The lghtest brain On
record weighed eight ounces and belonged
to an idiot boy, and that of an idiot
woman weighed ten ounces. The average
brain of Englishmen is 40 ounces; that of
F%renchmen a little over as ounces; that Of
Dutch, Italians, Swedes and Lapps comes
nearer the English, while the German
brain is heavier. In India the weight Is
from Al to Al ounces, in Africa AZ, and
in America 46.-Arkansaw Traveller.
, 1887-03-16

THERE is a dea! Of angry war talk in
France. and the implements Of war are
kept ready Tor instant use: out it Is no
ticeablc that the Frenchmen are working
with all their might at the buildings for
the great worlds exhibition at Paris in
1889, which will symbolic the triumpbs
of peace. 1t would be a pity for them to
permit this peaceful work to be inter
rupted by 4 blooAy war. which would
mean paralysis to trade and industries.
, 1887-03-16

According to DR.. John C. Peters, Of
this city, the germ of diphtheria is so
nearly like that Of common putrefaction
that it is very difficult to tell them apart.
Diphtheria germs are moro active and
virulent than those Of common putrefac-
ton. Nevertheless, the latter may cause,
in persons who have delicate mucous
membranes, an attack Of cankered sore
throat. This is seldom fatal, but is often
infectious to young children, and may de-
velop in them true diphtheria. An adult
affected with sore throat should never,
therefore, kiss n child, especially upon its
lips. The afTectionate caress may cause
the child's death.-Boston Budget.
, 1887-03-16

thead of any other, was offered 60, 900 for
his chance, but refused to take It; another,
whose list had been lost in the post, COM
mitted suicide.
With the Australian mail arrived be-
tween 500 and 600 letters, but no cata-
logue among them could show any AN
gerous numbers. America did far better,
however, and a competitor from New
York only just missed the third place at
that stage Of the contest. Two hundred
London letters came in with a rush upon
the last day of all, and a crowd, many
thousands strong, saw the old year out
beneath the walls of the Hailstone Com
petition office. Long and patiently they
waited, till finally, at 3 o'clock on New
Years morning, with the city bells jang-
ling in their ears, the result was made
known to them. A blaze of electric light
Illuminated the window upon which all
eyes had so long been fixed, and upon a
huge black board in letters two feet high
appeared the following legend:
Mr.. T. Jones, London .................. C,ai0
Mr.. F. Williams, London. .............. 6,139
Miss Amy Brown, London .............. 5,Si4
London had won the competition out
right, and the hurricane of cheers which
greeted this fact was heard in the stiffness
Of the night by solitary policemen ut a
distance of miles from the scene of action.
Mr.. Hailstone, in whose honor the
cheering was renewed, appeared at the
window after n short pause and made the
following statement:
EVERY line,'' said he, 'that 1 ever re-
member to nave had published has been
secured by Messrs. Jones and Williams;
but the former, by some extraordinary
chance, has come into possession of Il
fragment that 1 wrote when an infant, n
fragment which my father, the late Felix
Hailstone, Of Mincing Lane, had printed
exactly as it left my childish pen. This
fairly comes under the conditions of my
original manifesto: it is fiction and writ
ten by me-"
The biography which robbed Mr.. Will
Jams of $40, 900 aud put that sum into
the pocket of Mr.. Jones, is worth the
trouble of transcribing:
''There was wunce q boy called Jon hoo
run away to C to C korul refes and parms
he was Grounded
'Felix Hailstone
LACED z years."
So ended the Hailstone competition.
What it cost its originator and what good
ii did to him would be too considerable n
question for mere passing inquiry. Some
people declare that Felix actually made
money by his scheme; others, that he lost
half his rtune and gained nothing; but
Hailstone himself never touched upon this
point to us, and, after all, the subject is a
purely personal one. Let us leave our
author, therefore, in the halcyon hour of
success. He was heard to say, not long
since, that a fear, almost amounting to a
conviction, troubled him, When ques-
toned upon the color of his alarm, he an
swered that the possibility of some day
writing himself out, - of some day find
ing that he had said all he has got to say,
weighed heavily ON his mind.
There is something singularly touching,
modest and groundless in these appre-
tensions. Eden Phillpotts in Belgravia.
, 1887-03-16

PRoF. PRocroR has just made some
calculations as to the increase Of populs-
ton in England, which, applied to this
country. will give us in four centuries a
population Of 10000. 900 per square mile
Of territory. Henry George has evidently
never made any provision in his land ma
tionalism scheme for such a orowled con-
dition Of things as this.
, 1887-03-16

The Hungarian peasants still believe
the old superstition about the Jews using
the blood OF infants or young children in
certain Of their rites, a fact brought on
s~picuously to light four or five years ago
in the trial of a jew for child murder, one
of the children Of the accused being the
principal witness against its parent. In
Roumania, Bulgaria and Roumelia 1t is
even worse, the peasantry OF these coun-
tries being even more ignorant and super
stitious.- Buda- Pesth Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle.
, 1887-03-16

The SIM should have the fairness not
To garble the statements or writings Of
public official. 4 sentence omitted from
4 paragraph often takes from it pith and
point. Such was the case in a letter the
Sun published yesterday.
, 1887-03-16

OVER 5000 applications have been filed
under the new Mexican pension law. 1t
really looks as if that jaunt to Mexico
under Taylor and Scott had impaired a
redundant longevity to the warriors who
braved the storm of war forty years ago..